State Supreme Court Category Archives: State Supreme Court

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Ketchum

CHARLESTON – Jurors in criminal trials shouldn’t hear evidence of a defendant’s other “bad acts,” according to Justice Menis Ketchum of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
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CHARLESTON – West Virginia Supreme Court justices has agreed to review a $4 million verdict in a Wetzel County medical malpractice case. Earlier this month, the court voted 4-1 – Justice Robin Jean Davis dissenting – to allow argument in … Read More »

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Maynard

CHARLESTON –- The West Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously granted a petition filed by The Associated Press, which is seeking eight e-mails between former Justice Elliott “Spike’ Maynard and Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.
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Albright

CHARLESTON — The process for selecting a successor for state Supreme Court Justie Joseph Albright already has begun.
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CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously has granted an appeal filed by the state Department of Transportation, which argues that it should not have to pay more than $8 million to a man injured in a wreck and … Read More »

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Benjamin

LEWISBURG -– Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin will be the keynote speaker at the opening of the South Eastern West Virginia Regional Drug Court on April 1 at the Greenbrier County Courthouse.
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Canterbury

CHARLESTON – West Virginia Supreme Court officials and others on Monday announced the launch of a computer registry that keeps track of domestic violence protective orders.
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Albright

CHARLESTON — West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Joseph P. Albright died March 20 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center due to complications of esophageal cancer.
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CHARLESTON – Hundreds of high school students from three counties will sit in on an argument session of the Supreme Court as part of the LAWS Program. Justices will travel to the Greenbrier County Courthouse in Lewisburg on March 24 … Read More »

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Davis

CHARLESTON – Railroad workers who sign “total and absolute” releases of claims against their employers when accepting early retirement don’t release injury claims, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has decided.
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Ketchum

CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals overturned a robbery conviction because a judge didn’t exclude a juror who hired the prosecutor as his lawyer and told the judge he would hire him again.
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CHARLESTON – For the third time already this year, the state Bar is asking the state Supreme Court to hold an attorney in contempt for failing to abide by the terms of a previous disciplinary order. On April 8, the … Read More »

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Maynard

CHARLESTON – Though former Supreme Court Justice Elliott “Spike” Maynard lost the election, The Associated Press still is going after eight of his e-mails to Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.
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Davis

CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Supreme Court has overturned a ruling in Kanawha Circuit Court that said a retired railroad worker released his employer from liability when he took early retirement.
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Ketchum

CHARLESTON — West Virginia Supreme Court justices overturned a Cabell Circuit judge’s ruling that threw out a jury verdict and established a BMW belonged to a Huntington lawyer’s daughter and therefore she should be compensated for the car crash that totaled it.
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